The Oracle of Tyre

An Oracle of Tyre:

Isaiah
23:1-7 Wail you ships of Tarshish, for
your harbour is destroyed, your port of entry from Kittim is swept away.

Be silent, you people of the coastlands and
you merchants of Sidon, whom the seafarers have enriched. They brought food and
every other kind of merchandise, you became the marketplace of the nations.
Now; be dismayed, you great sea fortress, for you no longer have children to
care for.

Other peoples will ask: Is this the great
city of ancient times, the one that
moved to settle in far off lands? Is this the place where merchants were
princes, where traders were the most honoured men on earth and who founded
colonies in distant places?

Isaiah
23:8-11 Who planned this about Tyre? The
Lord Almighty planned it, to bring low their pride and to humble those of high status. Plough
and plant your own fields, you people of Tarshish for your strength is lost,
for the Lord has stretched out His hand over the sea, He has shaken kingdoms
and destroyed your military power.

Isaiah
23:14-18 Lament you ships of Tyre, for
now your strength is laid waste. From that time you will be forgotten for
seventy years; the span of one reigning monarch’s life. At the end of the
seventy years, the Lord will turn again to you and you will once more become an
great trading people. The merchandise and the profits shall be dedicated to the
Lord, it will not be stored up, but will be given to those people who dwell in
the holy Land, for their food and clothing. Psalms 72:10

Tyre: An ancient seaport on the Lebanon
coast. Destroyed by Alexander in 332 BC.

Kittim: The island of Cyprus, used in
the Bible as a ‘type’ for the Western nations.

Tarshish: Not the Tarsus of Paul, in
Southern Turkey.

: Tarshish was the name of a son
of Javan, of Japheth, of Noah.

: Tarshish is also the name of
the precious stone of the tribe of Asher.

: Tarshish, Wikipedia – A place,
a city or country, far away from Israel by sea, whose people are great traders,
thought be some to be Carthage of Tattessos in ancient Spain. [These places
were ‘stepping stones’ for them]

Ezekiel
27:12 & 25 Tarshish was the source of
your commerce, from its abundant resourcs of tin, iron, silver and lead. Ships
of Tarshish brought their cargoes to you. Jeremiah 10:9

Jonah
1:3….Jonah tried to escape the Lord, by going to the most distant place a
ship could then take him, which was Tarshish.

So the place referred to in the Bible as Tarshish, is a city or country
far distant from Israel, accessible from the sea and was a place of mineral
wealth.

The British Isles fits this description and secular records confirm how
all those minerals were mined there, then shipped to many parts of the ancient
world.

When Alexander the Great conquered ancient Tyre, he built a causeway
out to the city. The people who were Israelites, mostly from the tribe of
Asher, could see their demise was imminent, so they took to their ships and
sailed away to settle in a far off land. Exactly as Isaiah 23:7b says.

In due course of time, they became great again. Their sea fortress;
London, became the marketplace for the nations and they have founded colonies
in distant places.

Now, be dismayed, for you have
lost your military power and your Empire!

World Wars 1 and 2 bled the British Empire dry. But the seventy years
as prophesied could not have commenced in 1945, as that is now 74 years ago.
The span of the reigning monarch tell us: Queen Elizabeth was crowned on 2nd
of June 1953, 66 years ago, therefore the time for their restoration is mid
2023.

Then, they will support the new nation of Beulah, all the Lord’s faithful Christian people, living in all of the holy Land. Isaiah 62:1-5